Hello, writers--

I posted a new writing on the OWP Web Log.  It is like
the Summer Institute E-Anthology, so if you're
interested, you can go there and read it, then post
your responses.  I'd appreciate feedback of any kind.
It's a teacher lore piece I should have written over
15 years ago...

To see it, you have to go to the OWP blog:

http://blogs.writingproject.org/blogwrite24/discuss/msgReader$96

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contact our tech liaison, Sandra Effinger, at
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attachment, just reply to this e-mail.


Here's just a little teaser to get you interested:

Some Girls Would

By Janis Cramer

Martha was a skinny little nerd with an attitude. I
didn’t like her much, maybe because she didn’t like
me. She was a good writer, though, a tenth grader in
my Creative Writing II class at Mustang High School...

...One day I called her to my desk to conference with
her about her short story. “Martha, this story is
good—great conflict, great character development…”

“But?” she smirked.

“Well, I think you rushed it, or else you couldn’t
think of a good way to end it.”

“What’s wrong with how it ended?” she shot back.

I stared at her little brown eyes behind those thick
lenses. “No girl would kill herself just because a boy
she had a crush on didn’t like her.”

Goose bumps went down my back as she stared right back
at me. “Some girls would.”